What exactly do we achieve cutting up states

What exactly will cutting up a state and spending crores making new admin setup, will do for the people there? 

We need to understand that this Telengana decision is going to set a very dangerous precedent. Look out for copy-cat strikers proclaiming to be gandhians! Succumbing to the demand for Telegana ensures that more such demands will crop up, more fasts unto death, more political blackmail. 

After Telengana what? Bodoland? Gurkhaland? What stops Dharamshala from calling itself Tibet, the next Indian state? What will happen when Madhu Koda and his bunch of crackpots start a fast unto death for Kodaland where the CBI cant enter? Or frustrated with the Centre's delay in imposing President's Rule in Bengal, Mamta fasts for Singur as an independent state? And Naxalaites go into a fast unto death to declare the land under their control as a Naxal state? Will the Centre give in? 

Seems like the best way to get anything done in India is to throw a tantrum. I'm hungry!! Want state!!! People in AP were screaming 'we want 2 states' and for a while I thought they were referring to Chetan Bhagat's new book. 

On a lighter note, in the Telangana episode, there is a lesson for the younger generation. If you want better colleges, more seats, lower cutoffs - you know what to do. My kid is refusing to eat breakfast until she get her own new state, sorry slate. My cousin, in class VI feels 'uff, one more thing to remember in Geography'. Some of my married AP friends will consider themselves to be cool, now that they can also say 'we have had an inter-state marriage'. 

  

Its a stupid idea succumbing to every political pressure group. We will Balkanise India this way. The answer to terrorism does not lie in more controls. We will become a police state that way. We must continue to live free, fearless. Just like the answer to traffic accidents is not installing more speed breakers. It is to learn to drive safer, better.